Consultancy uses CAD for varied projects
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jan 17, 2008
SolidWorks enabled Petersen and his team to visualise how all of the spectrometer's components would shrink down and fit into a smaller unit, while ensuring against part interference.
Creactive Design is using SolidWorks 3D CAD software to accelerate development of everything from solar lanterns to phone kiosks and commuter rail cars.
Creactive used the system to design compact spectrometers for Thermo Fisher Scientific that identify trace elements in liquids for a variety of industries.
Creactive is a design consultancy with eight engineers and eight designers who develop products for the consumer, medical, telecommunications, industrial and transportation industries.
It standardised on SolidWorks software to speed design cycles, reduce prototyping time and costs and better communicate design information with clients.
"Presenting customers with options is critical to success for design consultancies", said Hans Petersen, a Creactive partner.
"SolidWorks allows us to work quickly enough so that we can create a broad range of concepts to present to our clients, increasing the chance they'll see a solution that meets their needs".
"The software was crucial to the Thermo Fisher Scientific iCAP 6000 spectrometer design".
One of the many challenges Creactive faced was to make the radically smaller spectrometer easy to operate in confined laboratory environments.
SolidWorks enabled Petersen and his team to visualise how all of the device's components would shrink down and fit into a smaller unit, while ensuring against part interference.
Reducing design errors on the computer helped the company minimise expensive prototyping and accelerated production.
Creactive created the design for the iCAP 6000 in less than six months.
"We wouldn't have even attempted this form in 2D", said Andrew Russell, Senior Designer with Creactive.
"It would have been a square box without any of the ergonomics that make it easy to operate, even in a compact shape".
SolidWorks' flexibility enables Creactive to work on client design files sent in other CAD formats to ensure everyone is on the same page.
The company also uses SolidWorks eDrawings email-enabled design communication tool to share 3D models of concepts with clients, which accelerates the approval process.
Creactive relies on authorised SolidWorks reseller Cadtek for ongoing software training, implementation and support.
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